Blase J. Cupich Quotes

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

My personality doesn't interest me.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I describe myself as a human being.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

Figure out who you are.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.